Breeding

[furryrabbit]

Im going to purchase some neon or perhaps cardinal tetras. could anyone tell me if they breed in a tank - and how?

 

[dwarfgourami]

With difficulty, they need to be conditioned and the water needs to be just right, soft and acid, and the parents removed after spawning and the tank darkened for the eggs to hatch. Nothing that's going to happen in your community tank in other words.

 

[furryrabbit]

With difficulty, they need to be conditioned and the water needs to be just right, soft and acid, and the parents removed after spawning and the tank darkened for the eggs to hatch. Nothing that's going to happen in your community tank in other words.

oh s**t. maybe ill buysomething more breedable , guppys perhaps. thanks anyways

 

[dwarfgourami]

Not saying breeding neons can't be done, but it takes a bit of extra planning, I believe, and it is one case where water parameters really do matter.

If you want easier egglayers, you might want to consider:

danios (if you have a long enough tank)

cherry barbs

bristlenose plecs (if you have the room)

kribs (if you have a tank for them alone)

rams (if you have soft water)

convict cichlids (if you have somewhere that will take the fry; they breed like rabbits, and unlike guppies you can't rely on the parents to eat superfluous offspring)

corydoras

 

[SophieLT]

HI!!!!!!

i find guppies really easy to breed but they must have good conditions. 8)

GOOD LUCK

 

[jarmado]

mollies are quite easy to breed!

 

[SophieLT]

true they are!!

 

[jayjay]

i found all the common livebearers easy to breed, mollies. swordtails, platies and guppies i had to get rid of them all way way to many.

i've gone on from breeding livebearers to things like chiclids.

good luck with your breeding

 

[SophieLT]

siamese fighters are good breeders but die easy

 

[jayjay]

siamese fighters are good breeders but die easy

??? they die if you don't breed them properly as in taking the female out and conditioning etc. but i have to say they don't die easy?